Week in Review: Dec. 30, 2024
—Messenger photo by Robert E. Oliver <BR> Dave Parrott is pictured at one of his favorite places in his adopted hometown of Webster City: in the sound control center at Prem Sahai Auditorium at Webster City High School. A first-rate sound technician, an instructor of sound technology at a community college in California, and a man who has selflessly given of his time and talent to local churches and Prem Sahai Auditorium, he dreamed of a better sound system for Webster City High School — and made it a reality.
-Messenger photo by Robert E. Oliver <BR> Subash Sahai, M.D., a specialist in occupational-environmental and family medicine at Van Diest Medical Center, Webster City, remembers his father, Prem Sahai, as someone who looked for ways to do good things with donations. When he had money, he gave it to good causes. Subash Sahai recalled, “Prem donated $500,000 for (the renovation of the Webster City HIgh School auditorium) and the board named it Prem Sahai Auditorium, but he never asked for that.”
-Messenger photo by Britt Kudla <BR> A line of vehicles emerges from the gloom on U.S. Highway 20 in Webster County Friday. Traffic counts conducted by the Iowa Department of Transportation show a lot more vehicles are using the highway since it was completed as a four-lane route all across the state in 2018.
-Messenger file photo <BR> Tjeran Jolliffe, left, and Donna Jolliffe were heading to Illinois to visit their grandkids for Thanksgiving on Nov. 25 at Fort Dodge Regional Airport. Area roads and the local airport were seeing an increase in travel for the Christmas holiday this week as well.
-Submitted photo <BR> Fort Dodge Senior High’s Cortney Hoover, a senior, has made singing and playing violin a big part of her life, in part thanks to inspiration from her grandfather. She was featured in this week's "Taking Center Stage."
-Messenger photo by Hans Madsen <BR> Santa, who was particularly jolly this year, being audible from about a quarter mile away, waves at cars as they drive through the Lights at Kennedy display the evening of Dec. 21. Santa is rumored to be Roger Feldhans, of Pomeroy, during the rest of the season.
-Messenger photo by Bill Shea <BR> These signs on South Eighth Street between Central Avenue and First Avenue South spell out the parking restrictions in place there. Getting a ticket for violating those restrictions would get more expensive under a proposal launched by the Fort Dodge City Council Monday that would raise fines by $5.
-Messenger photo by Hans Madsen <BR> Katelyn Johnson, president and founder of Swingin’ Fore Soldiers, welcomes visitors Dec. 21 to the Operation Ornament event hosted by the group at the Laramar Ballroom in Fort Dodge.
—Messenger photo by Robert E. Oliver <BR> Dave Parrott is pictured at one of his favorite places in his adopted hometown of Webster City: in the sound control center at Prem Sahai Auditorium at Webster City High School. A first-rate sound technician, an instructor of sound technology at a community college in California, and a man who has selflessly given of his time and talent to local churches and Prem Sahai Auditorium, he dreamed of a better sound system for Webster City High School — and made it a reality.
-Messenger photo by Robert E. Oliver <BR> Subash Sahai, M.D., a specialist in occupational-environmental and family medicine at Van Diest Medical Center, Webster City, remembers his father, Prem Sahai, as someone who looked for ways to do good things with donations. When he had money, he gave it to good causes. Subash Sahai recalled, “Prem donated $500,000 for (the renovation of the Webster City HIgh School auditorium) and the board named it Prem Sahai Auditorium, but he never asked for that.”
-Messenger photo by Britt Kudla <BR> A line of vehicles emerges from the gloom on U.S. Highway 20 in Webster County Friday. Traffic counts conducted by the Iowa Department of Transportation show a lot more vehicles are using the highway since it was completed as a four-lane route all across the state in 2018.
-Messenger file photo <BR> Tjeran Jolliffe, left, and Donna Jolliffe were heading to Illinois to visit their grandkids for Thanksgiving on Nov. 25 at Fort Dodge Regional Airport. Area roads and the local airport were seeing an increase in travel for the Christmas holiday this week as well.
-Submitted photo <BR> Fort Dodge Senior High’s Cortney Hoover, a senior, has made singing and playing violin a big part of her life, in part thanks to inspiration from her grandfather. She was featured in this week's "Taking Center Stage."
-Messenger photo by Hans Madsen <BR> Santa, who was particularly jolly this year, being audible from about a quarter mile away, waves at cars as they drive through the Lights at Kennedy display the evening of Dec. 21. Santa is rumored to be Roger Feldhans, of Pomeroy, during the rest of the season.
-Messenger photo by Bill Shea <BR> These signs on South Eighth Street between Central Avenue and First Avenue South spell out the parking restrictions in place there. Getting a ticket for violating those restrictions would get more expensive under a proposal launched by the Fort Dodge City Council Monday that would raise fines by $5.
-Messenger photo by Hans Madsen <BR> Katelyn Johnson, president and founder of Swingin’ Fore Soldiers, welcomes visitors Dec. 21 to the Operation Ornament event hosted by the group at the Laramar Ballroom in Fort Dodge.